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The Government Restricts Native Americans
The Federal Fovernment passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous resevation, or land set asside for the Native American Tribe -
The Government Restricts the Native Americans More
The Government changed its policy and created treaties taht defined specific boundaries for each tribe. Most Narive Americans spurned the government treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional lands, calshing with settlers and miners. -
Massacre at Sand Creek
General S. R. Curtis, U.S. Army commander in the west said "I wnat no peace till the Indians suffer more" in response, Chivington and his troops attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho, about 150 people, mostly women and children, were killed at Sand Creek -
Fetterman Massacre
On the Bozeman Trail, the warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge. Over 80 soldiers were killed. -
Death on the Bozeman Trail
The Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Siouz agreed to live on reservations along the Missouri River, was forced on leaders of the Sioux. -
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Red River War
War broke out agains the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in 6 years of raiding. The U.S. Army responded by herding the people of friendly tribes onto reservations while opening fire on all others. -
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Red Rive War
War broke out in the Kiowa and Comanche engaged in sex years of raiding that fainally led t the Red River War -
Custers Last Stamd
The Siouz and Cheyenne held the sun dance, during which, Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Nativer Americans falling fom their horses. when Colonel Custer and his troops reached the Little Bighorn River, the Nartive Americans were ready for them. -
The Dawes Act
Congress passed the Dawes Act, aiming to "Americanize" the Nativer Americans. The act broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservations land to individual Native American-160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government would sell the remainder of the reservations to settlers. -
Wounded Knee
The Seventh Cavalry, Custers old regiment, rounded up 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in SOuth Dakota. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. A shot was fired form a unknown side and the soldiers oened fire with deadly cannon.
